Is Green or Black tea toxic for rats?

Rats deserting a sinking ship? Three new senators who had major Tea Party support won't join TP Caucus.

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012706966.html How long will it take the TP to turn on them?

• Answer:

  Well, the great thing about being a Senator is that they've got six years. It could simply be a calculation that the tp'ers will be irrelevant six years from now. They could easily be one-hit wonders, especially if they manage to do something awful to the Republicans during the next Presidential campaign. What's interesting is the explicit admission that the tp creates division within the Republicans. There's technically no reason not to join a caucus if you agree with what they stand for. It does not bind you to anything. It's an extra set of meetings you have to go to, and often, not even that. Thing is, remove the raving lunacy from the tp ideas, and underneath you've got the same old Republican small-government ideas. (Well, except for Social Security and Medicare, which tp'ers often seem rabidly in favor of despite being the closest the US comes to genuine socialism, but that's beside the point.) Those ideas came out in a particularly moronic way this term, but it's the same people believing in largely the same things, only with an extra dose of paranoia. So, if these senators have used the dimmest members of their party, then it's not really all that different from the way any politician works. Distancing themselves from it may be a good sign that the next election will be less idiot-filled than the last one. Or at least less idiot-dominated.